VAvasco·Nov 2, 2013Submission
WebLoop - API for WebKit (like PhantomJS) in Go
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WebLoop: Scriptable, headless WebKit with a Go API. Like PhantomJS, but for Go.
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What it is
WebLoop: Scriptable, headless WebKit with a Go API. Like PhantomJS, but for Go.
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Observed mentions: 2013-10-31 03:10:37 UTC to 2014-07-07 09:25:25 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Oct 2013 | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 2013 | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Dec 2013 | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2014 | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Mar 2014 | 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2014 | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2014 | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2014 | 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2014 | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesWebLoop is built on go-webkit2 (https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/go-webkit2/re...) (recent HN post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6644996) and exposes a more Go-idiomatic API for WebKit. The goal is for WebLoop to be a Go version of PhantomJS that can be used as a Go library or compiled to a smaller static binary with no external deps.
It includes an net/http.Handler StaticRenderer (https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/webloop/symbo...) that you can use to transparently render static HTML from a dynamic app, for search engines, social previews, etc. There's an example application of this using an AngularJS app.
There's also an included static-reverse-proxy program (https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/webloop/tree/...) that reverse proxies a dynamic app, returning statically rendered HTML. See
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the README (https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/webloop/readm...) for usage info.
I'd love to get feedback on this library and get other folks involved!
Show HN: WebLoop – PhantomJS for Go – Render static HTML of dynamic apps
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